Jerry Saltz gives the Independent fair a reserved thumbs up. A few picks from him (though as of today the fair is an exhibition only.) [Vulture]

Perhaps a more kid-friendly Snapchat, Boop is a new app which allows you to send self-destructing animated messages. They’re basically a slideshow of animated emojis. Sponsored Boops are also possible. Still, fun! [Tech Crunch]

Obama calls for net neutrality. He wants the Internet to be classified as a basic utility, which service providers can’t block and filter at will. “The Internet has been one of the greatest gifts our economy — and our society — has ever known,” he writes. [The White House, via Tech Crunch]

Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed Al-Thani of Qatar, one of the world’s top collectors, has died suddenly at the age of 48 of natural causes. [The Art Newspaper]

Judge Steven W. Rhodes approved Detroit’s bankruptcy plan, now known as “the grand bargain”, thus saving the Detroit Institute of Art from certain pillage. The bargain will provide money to save public workers’ pensions, and the museum will now be owned and protected by an independent charitable trust (as opposed to being owned by the city). [The New York Times]

Phong Bui sucks off Walter Robinson on the Brooklyn Rail. (We like Robinson too, but this interview is absurd.) In the 1970s, Robinson was the co-editor and publisher of Art-Rite, a newsprint magazine distributed by Soho galleries. We’d never heard of it, but it was possibly the most relevant art publication ever printed. Congratulations, Walter! [The Brooklyn Rail]

The avant-garde composer Robert Ashley, who was probably best known for his television opera “Perfect Lives,” has died at age 83. [Pitchfork]

160 years later, the New York Times published corrections to its original piece on Solomon Northup, the man whose story inspired the film 12 Years a Slave. The Times misspelled Northup’s name. [The New York Times, via The Verge]

A sex tape allegedly featuring Marilyn Monroe, JFK, and RFK will not be sold at auction. Not this time. [Daily Mail]

The Guardian’s Art Critic Adrian Searle speculated over Twitter this weekend that Manifesta 10, which is slated to take place in St. Petersburg, will not take place due to Russia’s role in the civil unrest in the nearby Ukraine. Yuri Leiderman, an artist who participated in the first Manifesta and is a native of the Ukraine has written an appeal urging the international community to boycott the event and to spread his words. Leiderman’s appeal is now on e-flux founder Anton Vidokle’s Facebook page. So far, Manifesta has made no statement. Readers can harass them over Twitter. [Facebook]

The Cleveland Museum of Art has tagged unspecified millions, out of a $10 million donation, to community outreach as well as the purchase of Native American paintings. [Artforum, via the Cleveland Plain-Dealer]

Who’s up for three fair seasons! The Independent has announced that it’ll replicate its feeding frenzy in New York again in November, to coincide with the auctions. “We wanted to do something different,” fair founder Elizabeth Dee told Gallerist. Yeah, another fair in New York. That’s really different. [GalleristNY]

The Domino Sugar Factory will be turned into high rises as planned, but thanks to Bill de Blasio, those buildings will now include 700 units of affordable housing. That’s up from the originally promised 660, but short of the mayor’s original ask by approximately 20 units. [ANIMAL New York]

Georgia’s Kennesaw State University opened its new museum this weekend. Two days prior to the opening, museum staff were ordered to remove an installation by artist Ruth Stanford; it featured artifacts from the home of the late Georgia writer Cora May Harris. Opponents claim that Harris, who is known for writing in defense of racism, “did not align with the celebratory atmosphere of the museum’s opening.” [CBS Atlanta]

It’s fair week, which means you can expect a flurry of posts nominally about art, and largely about who’s selling what. Before anyone gets to that, though, you’ll need to know to where to go to buy your art (or like the rest of us rabble, look at it with awe and wonder). This list will help you get where you’re going.

In this town, it’s never too late to talk about art fairs. Missed last week’s art fairs? No problem. We’ll be redoing this whole thing come May when Frieze, NADA, and Pulse launch a second assault on the city. The Golden Fag Award will have to wait until all the fairs have run. In the meantime, a full recap of last week’s shenanigans.